@prologic@twtxt.net cool, so can this be used to improve the data quality of various nicks on each pod? I don’t see a "nick": field in the JSON

@darch@neotxt.dk In any case I don’ think adding nick somehow to the JRD (JSOn resource Data?) would really help here anyway. What this would help with however if we got this spec’ed up and into clients is a way to validate @-mentions and feed URI lookups.

@prologic@twtxt.net so anyway people should start using the longform mentions of @nick@url and not just @nick and the the client (yarnd) need to verify it and convert it to the proper mentions. Maybe even just as @<source.url> over @<source.nick> to omitting the spreading of bad nicks. (Ref: twtxt file — twtxt 1.3.2-dev documentation )

@darch@neotxt.dk I kind of agree that we can probably omit the nick part in mentions entirely. Since they can be looked up and cached, there’s no need for this. But we’ll have to spec this all up. First let’s see what @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org and @movq@www.uninformativ.de and others like @anth@a.9srv.net thing about finally formalising a standard way to lookup feed URI(s) and define a slightly more saner? @-mention syntax/usage pattern. I for one hate manually typing out (for example) @<darch https://neotxt.dk/user/darch/twtxt.txt> like this @darch@neotxt.dk 😅

@prologic@twtxt.net My point was also that the client should match and replace @prologic with @<https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> and prompt the use in some way if there are more than one prologic like yarnd already does with the popup and autofill.

@darch@neotxt.dk Ahh you mean rewrite @-mentions into their fully formed Twtxt mention special URLs? 🤔

I mean yeah sure, yarnd already does this today really, based on what’s in your “Followings” list on your account, which basically is a mapping of nick -> url of the feeds you follow. Really it could just be a simple list and we could drop the nick there too at some point (as again, we can just look them up and cache)

@prologic@twtxt.net yes and leaving out the nicks which you can also not really edit when they are saved to to yarnd following list. You need to delete and re-add them. But if we get around to building something like this http://darch.dk/yarn/lists-mockup-01.html then it would be easier to fix